rewatching forrest gump on tv for the 10000th time, am i the only person that thinks jenny taking like 6 years to tell forrest he has a son is <dumb>? the dudes a ****ing millionaire and this <woman> has to hire a babysitter while she works at a diner in columbus, sc.

I was wondering the other day why Forrest didn't have aids also. When did Jenny get it?

He probably got it too... at least I always assumed he did.

SexxxGodSteve

08-19-2007, 10:06 PM

Did she really die from AIDS?

I think that Jenny did love Forrest. He was the only one in her life who actually cared about her, and even though it took her forever to realize it, she eventually did. I mean, her father abused her, she was a total slut in college, got mixed up in the hippie movement, and was a junkie. The two characters were total opposites. While Forrest ran, Jenny stayed behind. When Forrest joined the war effort, Jenny protested it. Forrest was your typical white guy (even though he was retarded) and Jenny felt the need to hang with the ****ing Panthers. Forrest was always doing the right things while Jenny was hellbent on ****ing up. She finally pulled her act together though at the end. I think it shows just how well opposites can actually attract.

That being said, I realize that it's a movie and that the whole thing is fake.

Slash

08-19-2007, 10:07 PM

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godsdog

08-19-2007, 10:08 PM

destiny has the most amazing sig ever.

Doaln

08-19-2007, 10:08 PM

it's a fictional disease. it's not supposed to be AIDS directly or they would have said it. it's just aids-like.

well i read somewhere that jenny technically contracted aids in 83 right when the stuff was starting, so it was almost impossible for her to get it.

i recommend the bill simmons article about jenny for the curious.

Q: Wondering if you could settle an argument between me and my buddies? We were discussing how many sexual partners Jenny had in "Forrest Gump." Everyone seems to think the over/under should be set at 250. I argued that it's got to be at least 500. And that's conservative. Keep in mind she was a hippie, drug addict in the '60s the time of free love. She was naked on stage playing an acoustic guitar. She was molested by her father. I'm pretty sure she took down that whole Black Panther rally. Am I way off here? I'm not saying she's a bad person. But if a hot girl has sex with someone like Forrest, chances are she's got a bad case of the "Ben Stillers" -- i.e. she can't say "no." Now that I think about it, I'm saying a grand easy.
-- Keith, Hermosa Beach, Calif.

SG: All right, let's figure this out. According to Jenny's gravestone during the scene when Forrest says goodbye to her and it gets overwhelmingly dusty, she was born in 1945 and died in March of '82. We know that she went to an all-girls college in the mid-'60s (probably not a lot of sex at that point), that she got expelled for posing in Playboy, that she did the naked guitarist thing, and that she eventually became a traveling hippie in the late-'60s, leading to the scene where she spots Forrest speaking at the Washington Monument and runs across the water to see him. At this point, she's dating the guy from Berkeley who Forrest ends up punching in the face; you'd have to guess they'd been dating for a year or two, and the Free Love Era had just started ... so she couldn't have topped 25-30 partners at this point. We also know that she got knocked up by Forrest in the 1977-78 range, cooled things down and became a diner waitress to provide for her son over the next few years -- can't imagine a lot of sex happening for her from 1978 to 1981, and then we know that she moved back in with Forrest and their son Haley Joel Osment, married Forrest and died a few months later.

So Jenny's sexual prime happened from 1970 to 1978 and culminated in her turning into a coked-up disco queen and nearly jumping off a balcony. Even if she averaged 40-50 partners per year over that stretch -- which wouldn't have been a Chamberlain-esque pace by any standards -- there's no way you're getting to 500. Also, girls who sleep with hundreds and hundreds of guys inevitably start to look weathered and worn down. As my old Boston buddy Mark Fanning used to say, "You can usually look at a girl and SEE the number of guys she's slept with." That's why women don't last long in the porn industry; they're aging in dog years. So since Jenny looked relatively good even when she returned to Forrest's house in 1978, I'm putting the over/under at 220.5 and making a guess of 205 for her total number of partners.

(The bigger question: The movie implies that Jenny died of AIDS ... and yet, she died in March of 1982, nine months after the first recorded case of AIDS in the United States. So how did she get AIDS in the 1980-81 range if she was taking care of Haley Joel Osment and working in some random diner? Could that have been a bigger plot stretch? Or was she still throwing it around even as a single mom? On second thought, maybe we need to bump up that over/under.)
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